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Levin Daily Chronicle, 30 June 1917, Page 1

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THE "NEW ZEALAND FARMERS 00-< OPERATIVE JMSTRIBUTFNO COMPANY, LiMITKD. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellirngton, Juno 22. The market 'lias been well supplied with potatoes, but prices • are remaining about the same. Wheat has .in accordance with the Government arrangements advanced per bushel. On account of shortage of space from > Australia oats are very firm. Maize is fairly plentiful recent prices being maintained. Bran and pollard are still hard to obtain and the market is very firm. The imported eggs are about exhausted and local supplies are inclined to rise in price. Dressed pork is still coming forward slowly and all lines meet with good demand. Poultry ie eagerly sought after at satisfactory prices. OaWbaaea are coming forward a iittle mora iraalj • and are meeting with good prices. Cauliflowers are scarce and good lines are realizing high prices. Only hothouse beans are now available a"nd these bring record prices. Fair lines of lettuce have been coming forward and prices are in accordance. The supply of swedes is satisfactory and fair prices are ruling. Pumpkins are short but marrows are in good supply. Parsnips and carrots still met with ready sale, also beetroot, celery and spring onions. Choice lines of dessert apples are bringing high prices but as the quality of cooking apples coming forward has boen inferior in many cases prices are muclh' lower. Choice lines of cooking and dessert pears have been scarce and recent rates a,re being upheld. Grapes are in very short supply. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt £6 to £6 10s. Cabbage.—Choice, 10s per sack. Cauliflower.—2os to 255. Carrots.—Best ss. Onions.—(Local £11 10s per ton. Turnips.—White 5s per sack. Lettuce.—Choice 2s to 6s per case. French beans.—lid per lb. Parsnips.—7s 6d per sack. Marrows.—3s to 4s per sack. Swedes.—3s 6d to 4s 6d per sack. Hutt tomatoes.—l4s per half case. Pumpkins.— 5s to 6s Gd per sack. Artichokes.— lid per lb. Celery.—ss per dozen. Leeks.—Bd to Is per bundle. •Kumeras.'—Bs to 10s per case. Apples.—Dessert 7s 6d to 9s per case Apples.—Cooking 3s 6d to 6s. Girapes.—2s 6d per lb. Pears—Local W.8.C., choice dessert 8s to 10s per half case. . Peairs.—Cooking 7s 6d pe/ case Pollard.—£B 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 6s 6d per sack. French beans 2d per lb. Beetroot.—Bs per sack. Spring onions.—Bd per bundle. Green peas.—ls 9d per peck. Hutt tomatoes.—4s per half case Nelson tomatoes.—3s 6d per half case Hutt Rhubarb. '103 per dozen. Apples.—Choice dessert 7s per half case. Apples.—Cooking 4s to 5s per full case. Grapes.—2s 6d per lb. Pears.—(Local W.B.C. choice dessert 9s to lis per half case. Pears.—Cooking 9s per full case. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 6s 9d to 6s lOd per bushel. "Maize.—ss 9d per bushel. Oats— Feed 4s 6d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 4s 9d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed, 4s 9d per bushel. S'eed| Oats.—Australian.— Aljgeirians dressed) and clipped, to arrive ss; others 4s 9d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 9d; Duns 4» 9d per bushel. Russian barley, Cape Seed.— 6s per bushel. Barley, feed.—ss per bushel. Barley meal.—£7 15s per ton. Pollard.—£B per ton. Bran.—£s 10s per ton. Linseed oil cake.—Slabs, meal and nuts £13 per ton of 20001bs; 100's 13s; 50's Cs 9d. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £7 per ton. Molasses. In casks, 28s per cask. Straw.—£4 per ton ex store. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's (i.]d; 90's to 100's 6d; baconers Sd<; choppers (heavy) 3d to 4d per lb. Honey.—sd to 6d per lb. Tggs.—Fresh 2s 9d per dozen. Meat and bone meal.—lßs per 100, 10s per 50; and 5s 6d per 251b bag. Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls 6d per lb. Nectarines.—6s per half case. Plums.—3s 6d per half case. Blackberries.—3d per lb. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Pears.—Local W.B.C. choice dessert 3s 6d per half case. Medium 2s 6d per half case. Pollard.— £7 15s to £8 per ton. Blackberries.—3Jd per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case. Honey—6d per lb. Beeawax;—ls 6d par lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts—9d car lb. • Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, 6d to 6}d; 90's to 100's, 6d; Baconers, sd; Choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb. Our weekly pork sales held each Wednesday evenings or Thuir&day Thursday. Pigs should arrive on noon. "Blue Bell" Arsenate of Lead.—At list rates. "Blue Bell" Lime Sulphur.'—2s per gallon, in casks.

Vapourite (Strawson's).— Kills all soil insects. 25s per cwt.; 15s per .-cwt Basic Slag.—£7 '10s per ton. Superphosphate.—£7 5s per ton. Waingawa Manures and W.M.E. Coy's, as per price list. Tea.—s and 101b boxes, Is 8d to 2s 2d; Chests, Is 6d to 2s lb.